The Bible provides a strategy for critical thinking that cuts-to-the-heart and enables you to challenge secular worldviews. In this four part podcast I will teach you the five point strategy. 

The Bible provides a strategy for critical thinking that cuts-to-the-heart and enables you to challenge secular worldviews. In this four part podcast I will teach you the five point strategy. 

The Bible provides a strategy for critical thinking that cuts-to-the-heart and enables you to challenge secular worldviews. In this four part podcast I will teach you the five point strategy. 

John Bunyan's classic Pilgrims Progress depicts the Christian life. We are surrounded by all sorts of vendors wanting to sell us what appears to be the true and genuine article. The only way to pass safely through Vanity Fair is to ignore the merchants and insist, whatever you may buy, buy truth and whatever you sell never sell truth. 

Man is a material and immaterial being. The immaterial part of man i.e. the heart affects the material part of man i.e. the body. This truth has tremendous implications in counseling. Sinful behavior that issues from the heart can produce uncomfortable feelings in the body like depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, etc.  

Charles Spurgeon called Satan the ape of God. Just as an ape will mimic a person so Satan mimics God. God sends Christ, Satan sends false Christs (Matt. 24). God sends prophets, Satan sends false prophets (Matt. 7). Satan's program involves misleading men concerning his plan so as they follow his imitation they are convinced they are following God. 

"I sinned" is correct. It is incorrect to use psychological euphemisms such as, "I made a mistake, poor choice, I have an obsessive compulsive disorder, or oppositional defiant disorder. Grace and forgiveness can only be experienced when a person understands they have sinned. Sin matters. 

How can the church minister to people that express feelings of being a male or female in the wrong body? I will address the worldview that drives the transgender debate, the cause of the feelings referred to as gender dysphoria and how the church should respond. 

Does it matter to God how you VIEW your work? Does it matter to God how you DO your work? Whether you work in an office, factory or at home a large portion of your time is at work. A person that does not work becomes dissatisfied. The dissatisfaction will manifest itself physically and mentally. 

What do patients and psychotherapists do? They speak and listen to one another. They have a conversation. Many believe psychotherapy is a medical intervention however, there is noting medical about it.